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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 326–328.
Published: 01 June 1941
... and thought toward the end of the seventeenth century. G. F. SENSABAUGH Stanford University Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset. By BRICEHARRIS. Ur- bana : The University of Illinois Press, 1940. Pp. 269. $3.00. Charles Sackville’s name...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 328–329.
Published: 01 June 1941
... check of dedications to Montagu against Mr. Harris’s very helpful checklist of dedications to Dorset shows that in 1696 Montagu and Dorset each received three; but in the next year Montagu stood five to Dorset’s two. One more point suggests itself. Mr. Harris treats Dorset’s well...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 325–326.
Published: 01 June 1941
... illuminate greatly Eng- lish life and thought toward the end of the seventeenth century. G. F. SENSABAUGH Stanford University Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset. By BRICEHARRIS. Ur- bana : The University of Illinois Press, 1940. Pp. 269. $3.00...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (1): 157–159.
Published: 01 March 1941
... of Dorset, Patron and Poet of the Restoration. Urbana, Illinois : University of Illi- nois Press, 1940. Pp. 269. $3.00, paper; $3.50, cloth. Moffet, Thomas. Nobilis, or A View of the Life and Death of Sidney, and Lessus Lugubris. [With Introduction, Transla- tion and Notes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (4): 545–568.
Published: 01 December 2012
... in the great world (in the historical Dorset, for example). What they do instead is withdraw further into isolation and self-­containment, endur- ing their destiny as “silent, unobtrusive beings” (286). Receding into the landscape, Marty and Giles become fetish objects of the modern gaze — human life...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (4): 500–501.
Published: 01 December 1950
... Sackville, Earl of Dorset ; John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester ; John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave; and Sir Carr Scroope-these, in order of birth, were the Court Wits, flourishing from about 1665 to 1680. Wilson begins his treatment of the group with an essay on their common background and haunts...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1950) 11 (4): 501–502.
Published: 01 December 1950
... Sackville, Earl of Dorset ; John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester ; John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave; and Sir Carr Scroope-these, in order of birth, were the Court Wits, flourishing from about 1665 to 1680. Wilson begins his treatment of the group with an essay on their common background and haunts...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (4): 409–410.
Published: 01 December 1963
... in Reymes’s manor house at Waddon, Dorset, then removed to Zeals, Wiltshire, where they were studied by Mrs. Kaufman from 1955 to 1958. The letters and diaries of Reymes himself would, if published in their entirety, fill some 600 pages. Mrs. Kaufman has used them with skill and thoroughness...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (4): 465–472.
Published: 01 December 1943
... married again in 1715; his second wife was Anne Devenish, daughter of Joseph Devenish of Buckam, county Dorset (ibid Rowe’s grandmother on his mother’s side was also a Devenish (Jasper Edwards Hmrd N. Doughty, Jr. 47 1 place...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (1): 82–92.
Published: 01 March 1976
... in Dorset and in London. He describes the smuggling trade in Dorset in the 1840s and 1850s, the influence of the wealthy, land-owning Mrs. Martin on Hardy’s boyhood (and her inevitable conflict with Hardy’s mother), the office of the London architect with its veneer of sophistica- tion and its...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (2): 203–206.
Published: 01 June 1944
... essays, he singles out De la Comkdie Angloise and places it in the spring of 1670, or preferably earlier, to make it antedate the letter. However, this work has in it a mention of Efsom-Wells by Shadwell, which was played at Dorset Garden Theatre in December, 1672, and was not published until...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (2): 221–225.
Published: 01 June 1985
... reason to disagree. The result, especially in the chapters on Hardy and Conrad, is a graceful balance between original insights and an over-all structure that is at once familiar and in a continual process of refinement and revision. Though Hardy’s Dorset and Conrad’s sea have figured...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1961) 22 (3): 236–247.
Published: 01 September 1961
... Edward. According to history, Jane actually became Hastings’ mistress after Edward’s death; in fact, later she yielded also to the Marquis of Dorset, and put thoughts of marriage even into the mind of a sober magistrate of Richard’s reign.12 But Rowe’s heroine was to be an example...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (3): 325–330.
Published: 01 September 1973
...? Or a countryman’s feelings about that history, in the 1880s? (This is always a problem when a novel is set, however slightly, in the past; Middlemarch raises the same question.) The accurate rendering of the spot in time can be tested; we can check the harvests in Dorset just before the repeal of the Corn...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1968) 29 (2): 183–189.
Published: 01 June 1968
... Catalogues for Hilary Term, 1675.6 Since The Man of Mode was first performed at Dorset Garden in March of the following year, the intervening time-about twelve months-is right for the Treatise to acquire a reputation of the sort that Medley’s jest implies.7 That Medley is referring...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1946) 7 (3): 297–302.
Published: 01 September 1946
..., [ ?December] 1825, to Charles Ollier, 2 pp. 8vo. Kentish Town, July 1 [ 18261, to Miss Charlotte Figge, 1% pp. 8vo. 2, Milbury Terrace, Dorset Square [ ?September, 1833 ?I, to Lady Manners-Sutton, 1 p. 8vo. 41 Park Street, March 4, 1836, to Mr. Spottiswoode, 1% pp. 4to. London, March...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1991) 52 (1): 53–70.
Published: 01 March 1991
..., Selden sees her “definitely divided from him by [her] choice” (p. 205) to stay with the Dorsets, and Bertha Dorset herself cuts Lily off. Earlier, near the end of book 2, Lily runs to Gerty in desperation after escaping from Trenor. Confessing her duplicitousness to her friend, she also turns...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1958) 19 (1): 21–27.
Published: 01 March 1958
.... 10 Little is known about John Sadler’s private life. On September 9, 1645, he married Jane Trenchard, daughter of John Trenchard, Esq., of Warmwell in Dorset. Sadler’s London house burned down in the Great Fire, and later one of his country residences was also destroyed by fire. In 1660...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (1): 23–35.
Published: 01 March 1996
...) A mere sixty lines later, however, Lanyer is herself trod upon, although not so willingly as the hills: And that sweet Lady sprung from CZiflids race, Of noble Bedfords blood, faire steame of Grace; To honourable Dorset now espows’d, In whose faire breast true virtue...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1948) 9 (4): 429–439.
Published: 01 December 1948
... speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name” and “There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away”) are definitely in the manner of Moore, a fact that Byron did not attempt to conceal. Of the latter poem, he wrote to Moore : An event-the death of poor Dorset .. .-set me...